Well, when you're talking about tweaking -o flags for some negligible performance improvement at the cost of breaking ALL support from the application vendor(s) then yeah, its wank factor over real world usefulness. Seems like the ricer trend if you ask me.
Bah. Slackware is FINE if your mind works the slackware way. Redhat, debian, etc are just find and dandy in theory with their package management until you run into dependancy hell and it wants to upgrade half the OS because you want new version of package FOO and it was compiled against lib version BAR.
Are they OS X titles? If not then they're not really Apple's problem... The new intel GPU is not the old GPU. They've finally got something adequate out there now.
Thats what dell said. We've switched supplier and problem has gone away. The problem was with Latitude models: E6400, E6500, E6510. YMMV if you get different machines. These were sold as "high end" desktop replacement type models between 2008-2010 and have been no end of problems.
Actually, bing has a few neat features. Yes, on the surface its a google clone, but their image search is far superior (live previews, scrolling list) and they also have visual search (search bing for visual search). I'm making a point to try and use alternatives lately as I don't like google's monopoly. I've been relying soley on bing at work for the past few weeks (to get acquainted with it for a proper evaluation) and can't say i've had any major issues.
Pretty sure they are dying already. Most people I know have given it up for Chrome or other webkit variants. I recently installed one of the betas, went "Meh" and then back to IE9 / Safari (i'm addicted to coverflow bookmarks/history).
Until they get per-tab process isolation, they're going to continue to be miles behind chrome in bother UI responsiveness and stability.
Server MINIs have raid. Any server failure that goes beyond the RAID is going to "paralyze your business" for hours whilst it is restored from backup if you don't have redundant SERVERS. Thats why its called a disaster. If the building burns down, your business is going to be impacted a lot more than if you have to restore from backup.
They evaluated both Linux and Windows on TCO and decided that Windows was cheaper. Given that an enterprise agreement gets you perpetual upgradable Windows+office licenses at something like (from memory) $80/pc including av software, and a heap of enterprise apps its fairly attractive.
The second you need to employe a nerd to remedy a problem you just would not have had on windows that "free" software starts going up in TCO. Same with Windows sure, but Windows support (even "have you tried turning it off and on again L1) is a lot cheaper and easier to find.
Compare current hardware please. Any 10 year old hardware, Dell included was generally far more reliable than the built-to-maybe-live-to-warranty shit out there in the past 2-3 years. We've been getting 15-25% failure rate (within 6-12 months) on current Dell hardware purchased with the last 18 months.
If thats an option for you, go right ahead. I know i am fairly inconvenienced when shitty hardware dies on me when I'm in Mali or Kazakhstan for business, or somewhere actually nice whilst on holiday. I deal with busted computers day in day out at work, for my own use I want something that is going to give me as little grief as possible and am willing to pay for it.
I'll pipe up here: we've recently transitioned from Latitude E65xx to HP Elitebook 8540p here at work. Our failure rate has gone from ~15 percent within 6 months to nearer 1% (have had a single machine DOA).
Now the big difference between the two machines that is immediately apparent is that the Elitebook's casing is FAR more solid with far less flex. I'd speculate that the chassis flexing about on the Latitudes may be doing horrible things to the PCB inside, and contributing to the massive failure rate we've seen on that model.
Having used both macbooks and thinkpads (The T510 in particular) its no comparison. The T510 will not legitimately run OS X and the trackpad (as per all PC laptops it seems) is shite. That alone seals it for me.
If you have the money and and want one, you will buy one. Apple don't and never will cater to the "living on the bones of my arse, eating ramen" crowd. The performance of these macbook pros is close to the mac pr (tower) from 12 months ago.
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Well, when you're talking about tweaking -o flags for some negligible performance improvement at the cost of breaking ALL support from the application vendor(s) then yeah, its wank factor over real world usefulness. Seems like the ricer trend if you ask me.
Bah. Slackware is FINE if your mind works the slackware way. Redhat, debian, etc are just find and dandy in theory with their package management until you run into dependancy hell and it wants to upgrade half the OS because you want new version of package FOO and it was compiled against lib version BAR.
Are they OS X titles? If not then they're not really Apple's problem... The new intel GPU is not the old GPU. They've finally got something adequate out there now.
Thats what dell said. We've switched supplier and problem has gone away. The problem was with Latitude models: E6400, E6500, E6510. YMMV if you get different machines. These were sold as "high end" desktop replacement type models between 2008-2010 and have been no end of problems.
Actually, bing has a few neat features. Yes, on the surface its a google clone, but their image search is far superior (live previews, scrolling list) and they also have visual search (search bing for visual search). I'm making a point to try and use alternatives lately as I don't like google's monopoly. I've been relying soley on bing at work for the past few weeks (to get acquainted with it for a proper evaluation) and can't say i've had any major issues.
ease of use. Backing up = plug in external disk. Click yes. Done. Take disk somewhere else = offsite backup. It really is that simple.
And if the attack vector is in image handling code or HTML/css layout code, then what?
Pretty sure they are dying already. Most people I know have given it up for Chrome or other webkit variants. I recently installed one of the betas, went "Meh" and then back to IE9 / Safari (i'm addicted to coverflow bookmarks/history).
Until they get per-tab process isolation, they're going to continue to be miles behind chrome in bother UI responsiveness and stability.
Server MINIs have raid. Any server failure that goes beyond the RAID is going to "paralyze your business" for hours whilst it is restored from backup if you don't have redundant SERVERS. Thats why its called a disaster. If the building burns down, your business is going to be impacted a lot more than if you have to restore from backup.
Now you're just getting petty. You can take time machine backups on external disk off-site. And the important stuff, you can back up to cloud storage.
It will run on a mini. Or any other mac for that matter. And because its not running exchange, probably at a pretty decent clip, too.
They evaluated both Linux and Windows on TCO and decided that Windows was cheaper. Given that an enterprise agreement gets you perpetual upgradable Windows+office licenses at something like (from memory) $80/pc including av software, and a heap of enterprise apps its fairly attractive.
The second you need to employe a nerd to remedy a problem you just would not have had on windows that "free" software starts going up in TCO. Same with Windows sure, but Windows support (even "have you tried turning it off and on again L1) is a lot cheaper and easier to find.
The new GPU is equivalent. Its not a downgrade.
Compare current hardware please. Any 10 year old hardware, Dell included was generally far more reliable than the built-to-maybe-live-to-warranty shit out there in the past 2-3 years. We've been getting 15-25% failure rate (within 6-12 months) on current Dell hardware purchased with the last 18 months.
If thats an option for you, go right ahead. I know i am fairly inconvenienced when shitty hardware dies on me when I'm in Mali or Kazakhstan for business, or somewhere actually nice whilst on holiday. I deal with busted computers day in day out at work, for my own use I want something that is going to give me as little grief as possible and am willing to pay for it.
I'll pipe up here: we've recently transitioned from Latitude E65xx to HP Elitebook 8540p here at work. Our failure rate has gone from ~15 percent within 6 months to nearer 1% (have had a single machine DOA).
Now the big difference between the two machines that is immediately apparent is that the Elitebook's casing is FAR more solid with far less flex. I'd speculate that the chassis flexing about on the Latitudes may be doing horrible things to the PCB inside, and contributing to the massive failure rate we've seen on that model.
So yes, I personally "give a shit".
Macbook pro RAM / Disk is user upgradable. What proprietary connectors? I have a mini displayport on my Nvidia GT450?
... or trackpad, or ability to run OS X (legitimately, supported configuration), as well as Windows, Linux, etc.
... and the OS, and the apps, and the trackpad...
Having used both macbooks and thinkpads (The T510 in particular) its no comparison. The T510 will not legitimately run OS X and the trackpad (as per all PC laptops it seems) is shite. That alone seals it for me.
Because you can take the laptop with you once you've finished dealing with streaming uncompressed content to the array?
If you have the money and and want one, you will buy one. Apple don't and never will cater to the "living on the bones of my arse, eating ramen" crowd. The performance of these macbook pros is close to the mac pr (tower) from 12 months ago.
Particularly if you're not browing around the shadier areas of the web like warez/torrent/porn sites.
If was dishing out malicious HTML, you can be damn sure it would be fixed pronto as the damage to the company reputation would be enormous.
Thats not the open source way. The users are wrong, they just need to learn the tools better.
They could have quite simply provided that feature by nulling-out moderations done to a post if you edit it.